I'd be interested in an example of this, too, because I've been doing this for a while and I can't think of many--particularly in a modern, scalable environment

I'd be interested in an example of this, too, because I've been doing this for a while and I can't think of many--particularly in a modern, scalable environment (because Hetzner's APIs aren't great but you absolutely can scale automatically in their environment if you want to).